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Chopes Right Hander in the Solomans?
- Thread starter r32
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I really enjoy Nathan’s videos.
I can’t stand to watch 99% of the stuff out there but had no issue with that one start to finish.
always wanted to go to the solomons.
I can’t stand to watch 99% of the stuff out there but had no issue with that one start to finish.
always wanted to go to the solomons.
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Nuts. Weird seeing what seemed like a secondary shock wave breaking over the back of the primary wave @ 11:57
This wave if it pans out after further exploration may be even gnarlier than Chopes because it appears to be double the length.
When you add in the drone footage and parts from the boat, he tells a story.
A lot of these vloggers lack a beginning middle and end to their content. It’s like they all flunked jr high English and while edited down in length and slow mo sections the story is still the same as RAW videos.
When you google earth the Solomons you see that the reefs mostly don’t have passes, cuts or channels.
the chopes has a right to. some alex gray footy out there from a while back, longer than the left but morefickle. when it lines up, looks similiar to this one but makeable for a person like Alex.
The video was mostly sloppy go pro footage of wave dodging. Which was wise under the circumstances.
But the video is interesting because that wave is gnarly. Not good conditions, because the wind was on it, but on a clean, big swell, that could be a right handed Chopes rival for sure.
There's a lot of waves in the South Pacific like that- I've seen heaps of them with my own eyes.
Backless slabs where deepwater swells come onto shallow reefs and there is enough of a bend in the reef aspect to make it "peel".
Anyone who has sailed around reefs would know what I am talking about.
They are not rideable in any meaningful way.
Maybe the Florence brothers can make a wave.
Backless slabs where deepwater swells come onto shallow reefs and there is enough of a bend in the reef aspect to make it "peel".
Anyone who has sailed around reefs would know what I am talking about.
They are not rideable in any meaningful way.
Maybe the Florence brothers can make a wave.
I remember watching footage of Vetea David on the Chopes "right" back in the mid/late eighties....
Reminds me of battling out through the non-stop hurricane swells as a kid at our local beach break. Once we got outside, we paddled around for a couple of hours but didn't actually ride any waves.
Agreed. He's equal parts qualified documentary filmmaker and Hellman. A very smart cat.
nathan has some serious balls, bw the wave, wind and fading light? there was a gnarly vibe there
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Up until a couple of years ago I couldn't fall asleep on a boat. I'd do an overnight charter to the canyons and it was just impossible to sleep even if I tried. Now I can't keep my eyes open past 11:00.
The "Dark Fall" crew from my area followed Slater to a right near Chopes and filmed it in one of their movies. More like Rocky Point than Chopes though.